Between projects, the distinguished English poet dipped into his notebooks in 1917 to offer this “commonplace book of a journeyman of letters.”

Includes “Literature and Life,” “True Learning,” “Catholicity in Taste,” “His Greek Models,” “An Aphorism for Critics,” “Petty Criticism,” “Johnson on Criticism,” “The Author’s Responsibility,” “Genius and Mediocrity,” “The Perils of Irony,” and many more.